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Everything we know about the redesigned MacBook Air with M2 processor
I realise that it’s never going to happen but I’d love to see a 15/16” MBA. Most people don’t need the power of a MBP but would love the bigger screen.
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Apple loses lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox to Intel
Hello Intel employee.Intel is not "in peril" in any sense. Quite the contrary, Intel is #1 by a mile. AMD is #2 even if only because being forced to share TSMC with Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and Nvidia means that they can't come close to matching Intel's volume. (AMD is FINALLY shifting manufacture of their low end chips to Samsung later this year.) Apple is a distant #3. ARM CPU makers like Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung are going to be held back by the limitations of Windows on ARM (though there is some potential with Chrome OS ARM, which works a lot better). Indeed, now that Intel is re-entering the discrete GPU market, they are going to sell more chips in 2022 without Apple than they ever did with them.
I worked for Nokia around 2008/9. At the time, they were selling hundreds of millions of smartphones a year, outselling Apple by an order of magnitude. Comfortably the number #1. But the writing was on the wall. Everyone internally knew it.
I doubt Intel will ever crash and burn like Nokia but it's only a matter of time until Microsoft crack ARM on Windows. Once that happens, no-one is going to pay Intel's inflated prices for CPUs.
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Epic's Tim Sweeney calls Google 'crazy,' says 'Apple must be stopped'
Tim Sweeney, who made his fortune ripping off the work of an indie developer and who continues to rip off the work of indie developers, has no place in a true App Fairness Coalition. The man is a hypocrite.
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Uber, Twitter among companies giving engineers 'fully loaded' M1 Max MacBook Pro
This is a great recruitment tool but it's a bit of a waste in terms of productivity. The 10-core M1 Pro seems to be the sweet spot for the vast majority of developers. That extra graphical power isn't going to help.
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First MacBook Pro preorders shipping soon, as Apple works to meet demand
Mine's preparing for shipping and they've finally asked for the money from my credit card. 
